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Sigma DP2 Merrill shots

Quentin_Bargate

Well-known member
colors look very nice indeed.
are you capturing in raw mode? and if so, what software does the conversion?

thx
Hi Godfrey

Yes, all raw.

All decoded in Sigma Photo Pro 5 which supports the X3 foveon sensor. Not sure what if anything else dedoces DP2M raw files at the moment.

Quentin
 

Thorkil

Well-known member
Quentin, they just look fantastic! and those bone-knife!
But that Indian fellow is just so 3-dimentional!!!
Thanks!
Thorkil
 

Thorkil

Well-known member
Hi Quentin
:)
But one day you are sitting getting bored, you could perhaps tell, just ca. what you do normalwise in "workflow", pp and please also just the process you do for posting as they somewhat seems sharper than others, I'm not experienced in that way.
Best
Thorkil
 

Quentin_Bargate

Well-known member
Bruce,

In Silver Effex Pro, using settings I have tweaked over time.

All the shots are re sized and bordered using an action I created in Photoshop. However, the original data is very sharp - the beard on the portrait for example was rendered with outstanding acutance and detail in the full rezz image. the pics posted here are truthful to the originals in that respect.

Also more subtle gradations of colour. Hard to explain, just...better.

Thanks Uwe, for your kind comments also.

Some cameras you respect, but for whatever reason, you never seem to love them nor do they always give you what you were hoping for.

The reverse seem to be the case with the DP2 Merrill. Clearly it has limitations but it suits me. Completely different league from a camera like the RX100, or even the NEX-7, I would argue.
 

woodmancy

Subscriber Member
Some cameras you respect, but for whatever reason, you never seem to love them nor do they always give you what you were hoping for.
The finest words of wisdom I've read in the gear discussions in these threads. Thorkil, you will find your answer of the GRD versus the RX100 here.
Quentin, thanks for getting me into the pickle, and getting me out of it. I've ordered the Sigma :D

Keith
 

Quentin_Bargate

Well-known member
The finest words of wisdom I've read in the gear discussions in these threads. Thorkil, you will find your answer of the GRD versus the RX100 here.
Quentin, thanks for getting me into the pickle, and getting me out of it. I've ordered the Sigma :D

Keith
Keith, all I can say is I hope its love and not respect :p
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
...
Some cameras you respect, but for whatever reason, you never seem to love them nor do they always give you what you were hoping for.
...
+1

Glad the DP2M is doing it for you. Your results certainly look nice.

I spent a little time last evening researching it. Interestingly simplistic, minimal design. Not sure I like the all programmed buttons and such interface, I'd have to work with it in person a while to know for sure. Biggest downside to me is that I'd have to change my workflow for it and use their raw processing software. I presume I could shove an optical viewfinder into the accessory shoe when I want to, right?

I'm moving more and more to simple cameras like this. If I hadn't just gotten (and fallen in love with) the Leica X2, I'd be more open to buying one to experiment with. Who knows? If Lightroom picks up the DP2M raw processing in the next rev or two, I might give one a whirl. Not before.
 

Quentin_Bargate

Well-known member
+1

Glad the DP2M is doing it for you. Your results certainly look nice.

I spent a little time last evening researching it. Interestingly simplistic, minimal design. Not sure I like the all programmed buttons and such interface, I'd have to work with it in person a while to know for sure. Biggest downside to me is that I'd have to change my workflow for it and use their raw processing software. I presume I could shove an optical viewfinder into the accessory shoe when I want to, right?
That's right. I have one, but the rear screen is pretty good and I have not yet used it

I'm moving more and more to simple cameras like this. If I hadn't just gotten (and fallen in love with) the Leica X2, I'd be more open to buying one to experiment with. Who knows? If Lightroom picks up the DP2M raw processing in the next rev or two, I might give one a whirl. Not before.
Sensible! I also like it simple - so I use few of the more exotic functions some cameras offer. I tend to use my cameras on aperture priority or manual, occasionally program mode, and always shoot raw. I leave the camera on base ISO unless it is necessary to use higher. I don't use video (where offered) or user programmed custom modes, because I forget what I have set and in any event, the camera should be easy enough to use without them (as the DP2M is). It's a camera, for goodness sake, but we are being offered miniature computers in a effort at market differentiation.
 

Godfrey

Well-known member
That's right. I have one, but the rear screen is pretty good and I have not yet used it
I fitted one to the X2 as soon as I took it out of the box. I use it perhaps half the time, maybe a little more. I also have the EVF for it, but haven't really tried it other than to test it. It's quite good (the Leica is the same as the Olympus EVF, I bought the Olympus) and might prove useful at some point, but thus far I haven't seen the need.

Sensible! I also like it simple - so I use few of the more exotic functions some cameras offer. I tend to use my cameras on aperture priority or manual, occasionally program mode, and always shoot raw. I leave the camera on base ISO unless it is necessary to use higher. I don't use video (where offered) or user programmed custom modes, because I forget what I have set and in any event, the camera should be easy enough to use without them (as the DP2M is). It's a camera, for goodness sake, but we are being offered miniature computers in a effort at market differentiation.
Similar here for the most part.

With the GXR, I do use the custom modes ... the camera options for each are set up for the different M-bayonet lenses I use, inject the correct metadata and deal with lens-specific defaults I prefer. But even that remains simple ... I set up the camera for the three lenses I might carry and just set the selector for which lens I have fitted.

I don't change lenses all that often ... I've had the Skopar 28/3.5 on that body for three months now and haven't touched the selector since I put it on. Most I've done is switch the the mode to Manual and back to Aperture AE...

Camera manufacturers try to drive our attention to the camera and what it can do as a means of selling more cameras with better/more/zoomier features.

My preference is cameras that disappear so that I can concentrate on the subject matter. When I want to shoot video, I do. When I want to make stills, I do. I tell the camera what to do, I don't like to have to beg the camera to do what I need when automation gets in the way.

All digital cameras are indeed computational devices, but that doesn't bother me at all. It's whether they work the way I need them to, want them to, that matters. :)
 

Thorkil

Well-known member
The finest words of wisdom I've read in the gear discussions in these threads. Thorkil, you will find your answer of the GRD versus the RX100 here.
Quentin, thanks for getting me into the pickle, and getting me out of it. I've ordered the Sigma :D

Keith
Yes Keith :), I think I'll let the RX100 go. I have a strong feeling that the DP2M(no, sorry it shall be the DP1M = 28mm, so I wait) will be able to encourage one and will be tempting, not just for the normal 2 month-period. I do think it will be able to make those silly detail-shots in life turn out in a way my D800E didn't manage to do...too dull, too uninspiring. The DP has got something...something more. Well I'm aware of, I just right now can hear the echo from that sentence said several times before in my life... But, Image Quality combined with simplicity, I guess that’s what most of us after some long(and unrealistic) period with longing for the sublime, are settling down with in our mind, as a sort of mature conclusion, not a resignation, just a realistic calmness(hope is green). Less is more, at the most. But I'm beginning to realize, it can almost take a lifetime to get there. And then just combined with a GRDIV/V to slip into the left pocket. Not that I think I then will be a happy man, but perhaps just let the ambitions be fewer and less, and I might live happily with that. Okay Quentin and other (you also got a good grab on things, Keith) or more able to do small magic things with their/your pictures, I'm aware of. But doesn't matter, even though the DP looks great(in my non-twisting-system). And then by, by Nikon :eek:, you couldn't turn my neck around long enough. I don't need all that horsepower to drive 60 miles an hour.
Thorkil
 

Quentin_Bargate

Well-known member
A few more from Thaxted today

Church beams



(useless information: Holst wrote the "Planet Suite" on the organ in Thaxted church!)

Candle



Altar





"Bull Ring"

 

dunders

Subscriber Member
A few more from Thaxted today

(useless information: Holst wrote the "Planet Suite" on the organ in Thaxted church!)
Lovely shots of a quaint place. An intriguing camera!

Just FYI: Holst wrote all or much of 'The Planets' in the music room of St Paul's School. He lived for a time in Thaxted, and worked as a fellow socialist with the controversial vicar of Thaxted, Conrad Noel. One of the fruits of that part of Holst's life was the wonderful setting of 'Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day'.
 

woodmancy

Subscriber Member
At age 14 I cycled to Thaxted for an evening performance by the London Philharmonic.
"Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis", by Vaughan Williams - got me hooked for life on classical. What a place!

Keith
 

gandolfi

Subscriber Member
I just love the useless information that crops up sometimes.

With a name like Conrad le Despenser Rodan Noel I suppose one could not help but be controversial.

Must say I'd heard of the 'ice cream wars' and 'the football wars' and even 'the guano wars', but 'The Battle of the Flags' somehow passed me by:)

Now, where's my red flag...:grin:
 

Quentin_Bargate

Well-known member
Some would argue Thaxted church is the finest parish church in England. Its certainly is an outstanding building; unfortunately its spire is used as a reference point for planes landing a few miles away at Stansted Airport. I live three miles outside Thaxted and visit regularly, driving through on the way to the rail station at Stansted Moutfitchet to get in to London Liverpool st and my office a short walk away.

And as everyone knows (or maybe not), Thaxted is the modern home of Morris Dancing following its revival there in 1911, I believe with the local Morris dancers being launched on the initiative of good old Conrad Noël, Vicar of Thaxted, that Paul mentioned as part of renewed interest in Morris dancing begun by Cecil Sharp
 
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